* Backlight Brightness (If you use the nVidia driver, configuration will be needed - documented on the Nvidia wiki page)

* Thinklight / Keyboard Backlighting

* Thinklight / Keyboard Backlighting

* Sleep

* Sleep

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Keys that do not work out of the box (you can [[#keybinding|bind]] them):

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Keys that do not work out of the box, depending on your DE (you can [[#keybinding|bind]] them):

* Mute

* Mute

* Vol+/-

* Vol+/-

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Both the Ethernet and wireless are supported by Arch out of the box. All the available Intel wireless cards are very well supported, including good powersaving. The Lenovo branded (Realtek) card does not work as well and does not support powersaving on Linux.

Both the Ethernet and wireless are supported by Arch out of the box. All the available Intel wireless cards are very well supported, including good powersaving. The Lenovo branded (Realtek) card does not work as well and does not support powersaving on Linux.

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== Thinkpad Specific Modules ==

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While many of the system resources will be realized by the system, you may want to add the {{pkg|thinkpad_acpi}} module to boot.

GUI (X)

Also, I am going to assume that you have the same set-up as me so you'll need to do the following items.

I was in process of configuring Bumblebee, but after trying it both ways on my T530 - I don't really see a huge gain for the pain. So I dropped it. In my specific case, if I really need the extension to the battery life, you can just turn off the Dedicated card in the BIOS.

Once you reboot - you should be good-to-go with both vertical and horizontal scrolling while holding the middle TrackPoint button.

Hotkeys (Media Keys)

Media keys that work out of the box:

Wireless On/Off

Backlight Brightness (If you use the nVidia driver, configuration will be needed - documented on the Nvidia wiki page)

Thinklight / Keyboard Backlighting

Sleep

Keys that do not work out of the box, depending on your DE (you can bind them):

Mute

Vol+/-

Prev/PlayPause/Next

Lock

Mic Mute (doesn't even register on my keymapper)

Fn+F7 - Display Toggle (Projector?)

Fn+F6 - WebCam Toggle

Launcher (right of the Mic Mute)

Keybindings

Install the xbindkeys packages from the community repo. To run xbindkeys, it will want you to have a .xbindkeysrc file and will offer the default. Personally, I think the default options are terrible for a US layout (example: Rebinding Ctrl-F to not be find). So I just make my own to make it to my liking.

Here are the main ones, just open your preferred file editor and save the following as ~/.xbindkeysrc:

Be sure to set xbindkeys to run at startup, and any time you edit the file you need to restart the process. In Gnome/Cinnamon hit Alt+F2 and type "gnome-session-properties" and hit enter. Click "Add" and type in xbindkeys for the command. You can call it and describe it however you want.

If I get time, I plan to make a script that will change the program the PlayPause/Prev/Next control. This will just do banshee in my example, but I would like to expand that to control VLC if it is open and banshee is not.

Networking

Both the Ethernet and wireless are supported by Arch out of the box. All the available Intel wireless cards are very well supported, including good powersaving. The Lenovo branded (Realtek) card does not work as well and does not support powersaving on Linux.

Thinkpad Specific Modules

While many of the system resources will be realized by the system, you may want to add the thinkpad_acpi module to boot.